Somehow, Yumetsukai gets an anime

[Andrew Cunningham]

http://shop.kodansha.jp/bc/comics/eizou/#anime
Despite being cancelled abruptly a couple of years ago (after which Ueshiba Riichi has been in hibernation, producing only one short story) Yumetsukai (Dream Users) will apparently become a TV series next year.
I maintain that this is completely impossible.
Hopefully it'll mean the manga starts back up again...
Yumetsukai was a spin off of Ueshiba's previous book, Discommunication.
Essentially, the main characters used the power of children's imagination -- the anchient archetypal games -- to uncover mysteries caused by obscure occult lore. It was a pretty unique book, but the second storyline didn't really live up to the button pushing rampage of the first, and it was killed.
I'm a big fan, enough so that I actually stopped buying Afternoon afterwards, since they'd already lost Blame and Narutaru and were down to a handful of good books (From Kobe, Me and the Devil Blues, Blade of the Immortal) and an increasing number of boring bishojo titles. (That shoji manga is the worst manga I have ever tried to read...)

[pomru]

Huh! It will be interesting to see how the animators adapt Ueshiba's intricate artwork for the TV screen. The character designs lend themselves naturally due to their simplicity, but some of the costumes and all of those wild backgrounds...

[Andrew Cunningham]

Yeah, I hope they can keep it slightly off kilter...

[Rogueman_8]

official site for the april anime is now up.

link

[Andrew Cunningham]

That's pretty promising; the director seems to have been around a while though not often as lead, but the series coordinater is the screen writer for Gilgamesh, Genshiken, Gokusen and Shakugan no Shana.

[Herufaiya]

Hey, if Kasimasi can get an anime, anything's possible.
...Well, probably not, but hey, if Narutaru can get an anime, underfunded as it may have been, then there's always hope for ye ol' cash-in...

[populuxe]

Ohay, this is very cool. I bought all the tankoubans of Yume Tsukai, because I loved the intricate artwork and the unique story. I didn't find out about Discommunication until afterwards. I'm going to have to pick those books up, too. I won't quit buying Afternoon until they cancel Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, though.

[Andrew Cunningham]

So this was pretty dang good. The first episode was a complete story, so it felt a little thin compared with the three volume arcs (which in retrospect probably helped get the manga cancelled) and a lot of the more deeply weird stuff hasn't shown up yet, but they seem to have captured the spirit of the show pretty well.
And the opening five minutes are flat out great, with a giant teruterubozu standing in a classroom where, for some reason, it is raining...